Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-third Evening, sentence 4

I saw the flowered cotton curtains of the bed move, and the child peep forth.

Who acts: I, child · What happens: see, flower, peep · To what, where: flowered cotton curtains

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-third Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, child), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 saw	nsubj
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 curtains	det
4	flowered	flower	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 curtains	amod
5	cotton	cotton	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 curtains	compound
6	curtains	curtain	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 saw	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 move	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 move	det
9	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 move	compound
10	move	move	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 curtains	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 peep	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 peep	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 child	det
14	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 peep	nsubj
15	peep	peep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 saw	conj
16	forth	forth	ADV	_	15 peep	advmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	past	I	the flowered cotton curtains of the bed move		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer curtain=Stimulus
2	flower	participle				vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	peep	infinitive	the child		forth property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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